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Our American Guinea Hogs go to the butcher in 6 days. But they now have decided they don't care about the electric fence anymore. 8K volts and they run right through it, after 7 months of it working perfectly. So, instead of chasing them 5 times a day, we decided that our backyard is their...

Found a few piles of this stuff in our back field. Any guesses on the animal? That is my son's croc in one shot for size comparison. (it is not out of the question that our pigs got out and wandered back there, but it doesn't look like their normal poo)

We purchased a little place in 2020. Previous owners has a few horses and had T-posts fencing set up all around, but they allowed the back pasture to overgrow. It was about 2/3rd pine saplings and some sweetgum. Fenced area is about 3/4ths of an acre. The wife and I cut down most of the...

Yes, my love! What she didn't say was how to cut the grass. I figured setting up the electric netting outside of the normal pasture and letting our AGHs do the cutting was probably the best use of time and resources... Can't let all that beautiful clover go to waste!

So my 4 AGHs are young (18 weeks)... They are training to electric netting and we rotate them about once per week. Oddly, when we first got them (8 weeks) they went straight for the grass (Fescue mostly) tufts and nibbled them right down. But now, I think they have discovered how awesome clover...

Been on backyard chickens for a while now. We are now going to Branch out into pigs and cattle and maybe rabbits so I figured I should join here. We have made connections with a registered AGH breeder as well as a zebu breeder in our area. So now we are starting to learn as much as we can...

We are clearing some space for new pigs to have pasture. It was mostly young pine (less than 4") that a previous owner let overthrow... but there is some Sweetgum mixed in. We would like to leave a few tall trees for shade. Will/Should the pigs eat the gumballs that fall? I've read that goats...